Chapter 159: The Whole Army Attacks (Part II)
Chen Fan and the others saw that the other party's rout troops had rushed to Zhang Jiasheng's headquarters to meet them into a somewhat unstable formation, and immediately rose up to fight bravely, regardless of the casualties and fatigue after a fierce battle, and continued to launch a surprise attack on Zhang Jiasheng's headquarters while they were victorious. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć ļ½ļ½ļ½ļ½
Zhang Jiasheng originally led 5,000 people to respond, more than twice as many as Chen Fan, but after this battle, he was shocked by the other party and was a little chaotic, and there was a tendency to collapse at one touch, so frightened that Zhang Jiasheng beheaded several ineffective captains in a row, trying to stabilize his position.
"Open the bow, a hundred steps, fire continuously!"
At this time, Chen Fan and they had already entered the range of the archers in Tian Yan's own formation, and the archers behind kept firing their bows, under their cover, Zhang Jiasheng finally stabilized his position, and relied on the advantage of troops to launch a counterattack, so that Chen Fan's subordinates suffered a lot of casualties.
At this time, the 5,000 soldiers led by Mi Zhicheng also arrived and began to fight with Zhang Jiasheng, and replaced Chen Fan, who was already too tired, to rest.
On the left and right flanks, the men led by Qin Pei and Li Decheng were also marching towards the opposite side, and when they entered the range of bows and arrows, they were also hit by the rain of arrows from the opposite side, but they were not afraid at all, but continued to advance under the cover of their own archers.
After half a quarter of an hour, they finally survived the dense rain of arrows and launched a fierce battle with the left and right flanks of the Xuanzhou army.
Li Decheng's command had only 3,000 men, while the left flank they were responsible for had 4,000 enemy troops. However, although Li Decheng does not have any great ability, he is victorious in his calm and resolute personality, and it is not difficult for him to take on the task of attacking the left flank in order to contain the right flank of the enemy.
Compared with Li Decheng, Qin Pei, Yang Wu's henchman, was extremely brave, and as soon as he collided with the left wing of the Xuanzhou army, he immediately rushed forward more than thirty steps and fought with the other party. The Xuanzhou army on this flank did not have many troops, only 3,000 men, so Qin Pei wanted to quickly defeat the enemy army, and then flank Tian Yan's main formation with Tai Meng from the flank.
When the battle between the left and right flanks raged, the battle between Zhang Jiasheng and Mi Zhicheng in the middle lane also quickly became fierce. However, at this time, because Zhang Jiasheng's department had already gone some distance in order to pick up Sikong Guan and the two of them to return, there was a gap of fifty steps with Tian Yan's main formation behind.
In normal times, this gap is not harmful at all, but now is the moment of the decisive battle, Tai Meng has personally led the formation to press up, and after noticing the gap, he immediately ordered to attack there, wanting to divide and surround Zhang Jiasheng who came forward.
And Tian Yan also quickly found the gap, and immediately ordered the formation to move forward to fill this gap, and as a result, the armies of both sides launched a fierce battle in the middle, and no one dared to retreat a step easily.
The Huainan army wanted to repel Tian Yan's main formation in the middle and completely encircle and eliminate Zhang Jiasheng's 5,000 men, while Tian Yan desperately maintained the front and wanted to pick Zhang Jiasheng out.
This collision, the sword waved, and countless lives were constantly lost in it. In order to maintain the formation, after the soldiers in the front row fell, the soldiers in the back continued to replenish them.
In the rear of the Huainan Army, Yang Wu sat quietly on his horse and watched the battle. Behind him, Chen Fan, Fan Sicong, and Zhu Siqing, who had just retired, and other generals who had been left behind were also carefully observing the battle situation.
Although various methods were used to hit the morale of the enemy before the war, the frontal battle was not so smooth, and the left wing Li Decheng's troops could only take a defensive position under the attack of the Xuanzhou army, and the battle between Mi Zhicheng and Zhang Jiasheng in the middle was slow to gain the upper hand, which made Yang Wu a little anxious.
"This Mi Zhicheng, he screamed the most before the war, but why is it not as powerful as his mouth when it comes to fighting?" Van Si muttered from a small ear.
Before, he and Chen Fan led 2,000 tired soldiers and rushed Zhang Jiasheng to almost lose his position, but Mi Zhicheng led 5,000 people but couldn't open the situation for a long time, which naturally made Fan Sicong dissatisfied.
"Okay, you don't want to think that you only relied on the opportunity of the other party being disrupted by your own army to gain the upper hand before, and when Mi Zhicheng arrived with the army, the other party had already recovered. This Zhang Jiasheng has some skills, and it is normal for Mi Zhicheng to not be able to take him for a while. Yang Wu shook his head and said.
"However, this battle is on me, although the enemy army can temporarily block the attack of our army, but after a long time, they will still be defeated! Whether it is the victory of Mi Zhicheng's troops or Qin Pei's defeat of the enemy's left flank, it means our complete victory. So you all have to wait and see. Compared with Chen Fan and the others, Yang Wu at this time was extremely calm.
Now that Qin Pei's right flank has completely gained the upper hand, as long as they can quickly crush the enemy army, they can outflank the enemy army from the flank. Mi Zhicheng's bravery was also well-known in the army, and Yang Wu believed that it was only a matter of time before he gained the upper hand in the battle with Zhang Jiasheng.
In fact, Yang Wu's judgment was not wrong at all, Mi Zhicheng couldn't help but be angry when he saw that he couldn't gain the upper hand, he asked the guards to guard him on the side, and he opened his bow and arrows, and each arrow would hit an officer of the enemy army, which frightened the generals of the Xuanzhou army to dodge, while the surrounding Huainan army was demoralized, and constantly attacked the enemy positions of those officers who were shot and killed, making Zhang Jiasheng miserable.
"It can't go on like this! Something has to be changed, or sooner or later we will be defeated. In the Xuanzhou army, Tian Yan found that the situation was not good. Now his left flank and middle flank are falling behind on the entire front, and only the right flank can have the upper hand in the face of Li Decheng's department, but it is also slow to take the other side.
At this time, Tian Yan still had a reserve of 4,000 people in his hands, plus more than 600 cavalry, so he decided to throw these people into the battlefield, hoping to change the tide of the battle.
However, there are many troops on both sides in the middle lane, and it will not play much role to continue to invest in reserves, and the left flank is completely inferior in the face of Qin Pei's 5,000 men, so it is necessary to invest some troops to stabilize the situation.
However, if you want to save the tide of the battle, you have to find a way on their right flank, where the Huainan army is only 3,000 people, if you can put in the reserve army to quickly crush the enemy's left flank, and then flank the enemy's middle road, then there is still a chance in this battle, otherwise if you continue to be so passive, you will lose sooner or later.
"Liu Ding, you led thousands of troops to the left flank immediately to stabilize the battle situation there, you must hold there and hold on until the right flank of our army makes a breakthrough!" After a little hesitation, Tian Yan ordered.
"Wang Kai, you lead three thousand men to the right flank and help Liu Zong quickly defeat the enemy army. When marching into the army, you should first pretend to go to the middle of the rescue, and then turn to the right flank when it is almost time to confuse the enemy and prevent them from reinforcing the right flank in advance, you know? ā
"The last will understand."
Tian Yan sent out the last 4,000 infantry, leaving only the more than 600 cavalry around him who did not move, first, this is his last hole card, if the next battle collapses, he still expects these cavalry to save their lives. What's more, there were also 1,000 cavalry from the Huainan army on the opposite side, and he didn't dare to release the cavalry in this case.